[uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

[Tim White]

On 1/25/2007, Anders said:
>I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of source code being
>published online and the ways they do that.
>
>http://microformats.org/wiki/code-examples
>
>I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple of days.
>
>~ Anders
>

snip

>> > > All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and
>just
>> > > plain people showing of little programs they've written.  This
>data is
>> > > typical acompanied by an author or list of authors, a lisence,
>the
>> > > language type and version and various other bits of meta data. 
>This
>> > > seems to me to be an excelent place for microformats.


At first blush it looks like this would fit in and existing proposal, something like hReview. It seems to have enough fields to cover it  (though this might abuse the intent of hReview; i.e. we aren't reviewing a piece of code, but distributing it). 

You may also want to take a look at the hProduct discussion (http://microformats.org/wiki/hproduct-proposal).

As is evidenced by your blog post and the wiki page, it looks like about the only thing not covered by an existing microformat is the code itself, but I think that it could work in hProduct's description field.

~Tim






 
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